That's a database issue, nothing to do with the icon-appearance changes. Basically the name of the item is, to the game, pretty much non-existent. It's just another column in a table. What matters is what's referred to as a rowid or a dbref, an arbitrary number that's unique to a particular entry in the item database. If the dbrefs of 2 items are the same, they're the same item and can stack. If the dbrefs are different, they're different items even if they have the same name, appearance etc. and they won't stack. For historical reasons, dropped pelts have different dbrefs than harvested (in fact there's several different dropped pelts) and so won't stack with the harvested ones and won't until one of the devs grovels through every loot table of every mob replacing the offending dbrefs.
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